Interview: Director National Naval Aviation Museum

FighterSweep.com was lucky enough to sit down with CAPT Sterling “Sterls” Gilliam, USN (ret) current Director of the National Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola, Florida to get his thoughts on Naval Aviation and what it is like to run the Navy’s premier museum. CAPT Gilliam has logged more than 4,600 flight hours in 22 different […]

A Fighter Pilot’s Passion: Helping Wounded Vets

Everyone sees the need to help Wounded Warriors. But not many people have the guts, desire, and passion to start their own 501(C)3 organization dedicated to helping those who have been severely injured in Iraq and Afghanistan. Well, one man did. Meet Joe Porrazzo, founder of Warrior Passion (www.warriorpassion.org) and retired USMC F-18 fighter pilot […]

Soyuz vs F-14: 6 Questions with Astronaut Reid Wiseman

Editor’s note:  In our inaugural “6 Questions” interview, FighterSweep.com was lucky enough to sit down with former F-14 Tomcat pilot and current NASA Astronaut CDR Reid “Tonto” Wiseman, USN, for a quick chat. We hope you enjoy! On May 29, 2014, Reid Wiseman launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the International Space Station […]

“Unbroken” The Movie: Angelina Jolie Delivers

“Unbroken” was everything I was expecting from “American Sniper” but didn’t get. If you know me, then you know I don’t do fluff movie reviews just to make studios and their PR firms happy; while an early screening invite is nice, it doesn’t buy my loyalty. I’ll give it to you straight, and I hope […]

American Sniper The Movie: Not What I Was Expecting

As a SEAL sniper instructor who has trained over 300 students, I was really excited to see and expecting so much more from this movie. Cooper delivered an amazing performance as Chris Kyle, but Eastwood’s magic was lost outside of the first and last minutes of American Sniper.

A SEAL Sniper Instructor’s Review of The Movie Lone Survivor

If you don’t want to read on then I’ll just save you the trouble, and get straight to the point. It’s a great movie, go see it. I was invited to attend a screening of Lone Survivor in New York last week, and invited a few friends of SOFREP to attend (including Ian our radio […]